Freight-car.



, vention, such as will enable others skilled in cured thereto, and 3 my improved endate.

ply alike to both.

-dent of Columbus, in the county of Franklin and State of Ohio, have invented certain new ,cured to the gate.

' UNITED sTATEs ANTON BECKER, -oE coLUMBUs, oHIo.

FREIGHT-CAR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 26, 1906.

Application-filed February 7,1906. Serial No. 299,990.

To all whoml it may concerjm.-

Be it known that I, ANTON BECKER, aresiand useful Improvements in Freight-Cars; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the inthe art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

M invention relates to improvements in freig t-cars, the object of the invention being to provide an improved construction of endmechanism for securely holding the gates in vertical position; and the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations and arrangements of arts, as will be more fully hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view in vertical section illustrating my improvements. Fig. 2 is a view in cross-section. Fig. 3 is a fragmentary perspective view of one end-gate, and Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail view of hinge-casting to be se- 1 represents a'car-bottom; 2, the sides se- The construction being alike at both en s of the car, a detail description of one end will ap- The gate 3 comprises a series of horizontal timbers, secured together by metal straps 4, secured in place by bolts -5, and castings 6 are secured to the lower edge ofthe ate, as shown. These castings are made wit alined openings to receive a cross-rod 7, secured to the car, and the castings 6 are rounded at their lower ends to permit them to turn freely and allow the gate to be swung down to a horizontal position iiat on the car-bottom or u to a vertical position to close the end of t e car. The castings 6 are bifurcated at their upper portions to receive the gate and bolts are passed through said bifurcated portions of the castings and through the gate to secure the castin s thereto.

Angle-irons 8 are securey bolted to the outer corners of the sides, and smaller angleirons 9 are securely bolted to the inner face of the sides near their ends, and a timber or furring 10 is secured between said angle-irons and is made of stepped form, the angle-irons 8 and 9 extending to the edge of the timber or furring 10 to protect the same. The side edges of gate 3 are also made of ste ped form to t the timber or 10 `an limit the outward movement of the gate and reinforcing-strips 11 are secured to the opposite sides of the gate at its side edges to protect the latter.

A hook 12 is secured to the outer face of the gate 3, and a pawl 13 is supported on a bushing 14, located on one of the furringlsecuring bolts 15, and is adapted to enter the My improvements are simple and inex.

pensive to manufacture, are strong and durable in use, and are a great improvement in the art.

Slight changes might be made in the general form and arrangement of the parts described without departing from my invention, and hence I do not restrict m self to the precise details set'forth, but consider myself at liberty to make such slight changes and alterations as fairly fall within the spuit and sco e-of m invention.

IEIaving lly described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1 The combination with a car-bottom and sides, and a rod passing through the sides in proximity to the bottom near an end of the car, of an end-gate, and castings secured to the bottom 0f the end-gate and rovided with openings for the passage of sai rod.

2. The combination with a car-bottom and sides, of a rod passing through the sides near an end of the car, an end-gate, and castings bifurcated to receive an edge of the gate and secured thereto and having openings for the passage of said rod.

3. The combination with a car-bottom, and sides and an end-gate, of castings bifurcated to receive the lower edge of the end-gate and depen from the same and a rod passing through t e sides of the car and said castings.

4. The combination with a car-bottom and sides, and an end-gate, of castin s bifurcated to receive the lower edge of t e end-gate,

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eaeh casting having an opening therethrough and a curved lower face, anda rod passing through ,the sides of the. ar and through the openings in the castings.

5. The combination with a car-bottom and sides thereon, of gates hinged at their lower edges between the sides, angle-irons secured to the sides, timbers or furring's secured between the angle-irons, said timbers or furandthe gate edges constructed to it to A, eac other, and reinforcing-strips at opposite sides of the-gate at its side edges.

6. The combination'with a car-bottom and .sides thereon, of hinged gates at the ends of the bottom, angle-irons secured to opposite sides ofthe sides at their ends, timbers or ur- .rings secured lbetween -the angle-irons and A. BECKER.

.Witnessesz E. I. NOTTINGHAM,

J. S.RALsroN. 

